SEHIEL (je-hrel), (I Ieb. *17,yekh-ee-ale', God lives).
1. One of the rulers of the house of God who contributed to the renewal of the temple service in the time of Josiah (2 Chron. xxxv :8). (B. C. 623.) 2. A Levite "of the second degree," appointed by David to play upon a psaltery on the occasion of the removal of the ark to Jerusalem (I Chron. xv :18, 20 ; xvi :5), in which former passage he and those named with him are called "porters." Ile is apparently the Ichiah of ver. 24. By some he is identified with the Gershonite head of the Bene-Laadan in the time of David (xxiii :8), who had charge of the treasures (xxix :8). If so, his descendants were called Jehielites (xxvi. 21). (B. C. 982.) 3. "Son of liachmoni," who seems to have been royal tutor in the later part of David's reign (1 Chron. xxvii:32). (B. C. about to3o.) 4. In the original text, Jehuel, a Levite during the reign of Hezekiah who assisted him in his religious reforms (2 Chron. xxix:I4), and had
charge later of the sacred offerings (xxxi:t3). (B. C. 726.) 5. Father of Obadiah; he with 218 males re turned from Babylon with Ezra (Ezra viii :9). (B. C. before 459.) 6. The second named of the six brothers of Jehoram, and son of King Jehoshaphat (2 Chron. xxi:2). These brothers were all murdered by Jehoram upon his accession (ver. 4). (B. C. 85o.) 7. Shechaniah's father, of the "sons" of Elam (F.zra x:2) ; probably the same as the one who put away a foreign wife (Ezra x :26). (B. C. 450 8. A priest who also had to put away his %vife (Ezra x :21). (B. C. 459.) 9. A forefather of Saul the king (1 Chron. ix: 35). (B. C. about 1618.) 10. One of the sons of Hotham the Aroerite, of the guard of David, included in the supplementary list (1 Chron. xi:44). (B. C. to46.)